Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan uncovered the Primordial Divine Clan’s ties to the Great Red Heaven Imperial Clan Jiang Family, destroyed its leaders and invading experts, and healed the wounded Great Xia cultivators. He reunited with Xuan Yuan Nihuang and met his son Li Chang'an for the first time, leaving the family together again.

• Li Qingshan searched Jiang Chengde and Jiang Shaobai’s memories and learned the Primordial Divine Clan was a branch of the Great Red Heaven Imperial Clan Jiang Family.
• Li Qingshan killed Jiang Chengde and Jiang Shaobai, slew the clan’s conquering experts on Ancient God Star, removed its bloodline restrictions, and sealed its teleportation formation.
• Li Qingshan healed the wounded Great Xia cultivators with the Great Creation Immortal Art and told them to handle the aftermath before meeting him at the imperial palace.
• Li Qingshan greeted his master, the Five Elements Ancestor, and reaffirmed that he would always regard him as his master.
• Li Qingshan embraced Xuan Yuan Nihuang and apologized for his long absence.
• Li Chang'an greeted Li Qingshan as his father, and the three were finally reunited as a family.

Li Qingshan reunited with Xuan Yuan Nihuang and Li Chang'an, recounted his rise to Peerless Immortal King, and used the Great Creation Immortal Art to transform them. He welcomed his old friends back into the hall and began bestowing another great fortune upon them.

• Xuan Yuan Nihuang told Li Qingshan how she raised Li Chang'an and led Great Xia to unite the Tianyuan Starfield during his absence.
• Li Qingshan revealed that he had become a Peerless Immortal King and promised to take Xuan Yuan Nihuang and Li Chang'an to the Immortal Realm.
• Li Qingshan used the Great Creation Immortal Art to heal and strengthen Xuan Yuan Nihuang and raise Li Chang'an from the integrated body middle stage to perfected Tribulation Transcendence.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang invited Xuan Yuan Pan, the Five Elements Ancestor, and their other familiar companions into the hall, where they reunited with Li Qingshan.
• Li Qingshan greeted his old friends, then unleashed the Great Creation Immortal Art and enveloped everyone in golden light.

Li Qingshan empowered his allies and announced that he would take the willing people of Great Xia to the Immortal Realm. At Ancient God Star, he uncovered a broken stretch of the legendary Path to Godhood, and his Chaos Dao Fruit and ancient vine reacted strongly to it.

• Creation Immortal Light raised Li Qingshan's companions to the great perfection of Tribulation Transcendence, while the Blood Demon Immortal Venerable and other loose immortals became Nine-Tribulation Loose Immortals as Li Qingshan dispersed their tribulations.
• Li Qingshan revealed that he was an Immortal King and offered to take the entire Great Xia Immortal Kingdom to the Immortal Realm using the Chaos Tower, leaving the choice to each person.
• The Blood Demon Immortal Venerable told Li Qingshan about a mysterious place hidden in layers of void at the Core of Ancient God Star, and Li Qingshan went to investigate with Xuan Yuan Nihuang.
• Li Qingshan opened a path through ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine layers of folded space and found a broken stretch of ancient road in a hidden realm.
• Little Tower identified the road as a possible fragment of the ancient Path to Godhood, which once connected the Immortal Realm and Divine Realm before it was severed.
• When Li Qingshan touched the road, his chaos Dao Fruit and the chaos ancient vine reacted with intense longing, suggesting the road could transform the Chaos Great Dao.

Li Qingshan absorbed a section of the path to godhood and found the fourth Innate Gourd, the Heavenly Mystery Gourd, beneath the Eastern Wasteland. He returned to Peach Blossom Village, revisited his ancestral home, and secretly strengthened the Li Clan before leaving them to live their own lives.

• Li Qingshan absorbed the ancient road containing part of the path to godhood into the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd, where the chaos ancient vine began drawing out its aura.
• Li Qingshan followed the vine’s guidance to the Coiling Dragon Mountain Range and found the Heavenly Mystery Gourd hidden in a maze of overlapping spaces.
• Little Tower explained the Heavenly Mystery Gourd’s powers, and Li Qingshan absorbed it into the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd for refinement.
• Li Qingshan visited Peach Blossom Village with Xuan Yuan Nihuang and Li Chang'an and reflected on his old home beneath the peach tree.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang told Li Qingshan that Li Xingwen and other Li Clan descendants had returned to Peach Blossom Village, but Li Qingshan chose not to meet them.
• Li Qingshan secretly used immortal light of creation to improve the Li Clan members’ bloodlines, bodies, spirit roots, and lifespans.

Li Qingshan reunited with Wine Sword Immortal, raised his cultivation, and invited him to ascend to the Immortal Realm with Great Xia in three years. He continued traveling with Xuan Yuan Nihuang while the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd absorbed the Heavenly Mystery Gourd and he began reforging the Chaos Heavenly Capital Seal.

• Li Qingshan visited the rebuilt Five Elements Sect and reunited with Wine Sword Immortal, bringing him immortal wine.
• Li Qingshan raised Wine Sword Immortal’s cultivation to great perfection of Tribulation Transcendence, gave him the Drunken Immortal Sword, and invited him to join Great Xia’s ascension in three years.
• Li Chang’an returned to the Great Xia capital to prepare for the kingdom’s ascension, while Li Qingshan and Xuan Yuan Nihuang resumed traveling together.
• The Wish-Fulfilling Gourd finished merging the Heavenly Mystery Gourd, gaining new powers and leaving three of the seven Innate Gourds still undiscovered.
• Li Qingshan began using the Chaos Heaven-Refining Divine Fire to fuse two Immortal Emperor Armaments into the Chaos Heavenly Capital Seal, while Heishan absorbed their origins.

After three years of traveling together and preparing the Great Xia Immortal Kingdom for ascension, Li Qingshan and Xuan Yuan Nihuang led its people into the Chaos Tower and gathered 108 cultivators to face the Ninety-Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation. The chapter ended with the group assembled in a desolate region of space, ready to undergo tribulation before opening the Gate of Immortality together.

• Li Qingshan and Xuan Yuan Nihuang revisited places across the Lower Realm and spent three peaceful years sharing stories and exploring together.
• Li Chang'an incorporated Ancient God Star and its surrounding life stars into Great Xia, while the kingdom organized who would ascend and who would remain behind.
• Li Qingshan and Xuan Yuan Nihuang returned to the capital, where Xuan Yuan Nihuang confirmed that the people and their homeland had been prepared for relocation.
• Li Qingshan enlarged the Chaos Tower and drew Great Xia's cities, citizens, cultivators, battleships, and legacies into its Lesser Heavenly Realm.
• Li Qingshan led 108 figures, including Xuan Yuan Nihuang and Li Chang'an, to a barren region of space to begin their tribulations; the nine-tribulation loose immortals waited to ascend with them afterward.

Li Qingshan explained why surviving the Lower Realm’s Ninety-Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation gave ascenders a stronger foundation than tribulations in the Immortal Realm. He reassured the group that he could protect them as they triggered their tribulations together to maximize the blessing of ascension.

• Xuan Yuan Pan asked why the group had to undergo the Ninety-Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation in the Lower Realm instead of triggering a tribulation in the Immortal Realm.
• Li Qingshan explained that the Lower Realm’s tribulation cleansed ascenders and strengthened their bodies, Primordial Spirits, and Dao Foundations, which made them prized recruits in the Immortal Realm.
• Long Aotian joked that the group might have to start out mining, and Xuan Yuan Nihuang teased Li Qingshan about nearly becoming a miner when he first ascended.
• The Five Elements Ancestor asked whether more than a hundred simultaneous tribulations would interfere with one another, and Li Qingshan confirmed their overlapping power could kill even a True Immortal.
• Li Qingshan assured the group that he would protect them and told them to unleash their cultivation while he handled the tribulations.

Li Qingshan refined the ninth wave of the chaos heavenly tribulation into immortal liquid, provoking the Lower Realm's Heavenly Dao. A heavenly tribulation eye appeared and targeted him with Heavenly Punishment Divine Light.

• Li Qingshan used the Heaven-Devouring Divine Furnace to swallow the ninth wave of chaos lightning and refine it into chaos Thunder Tribulation Immortal Liquid.
• The Lower Realm's Heavenly Dao gathered the thinning tribulation clouds and awakened in anger at Li Qingshan's interference.
• A massive heavenly tribulation eye emerged and fixed its gaze on Li Qingshan, judging him an aberration.
• The heavenly tribulation eye fired Heavenly Punishment Divine Light at Li Qingshan, and Xuan Yuan Nihuang cried out a warning.

More than a hundred ascenders arrived at the Ascension Pool, where competing factions tried to recruit them. After several Profound Immortals were injured probing Li Qingshan, Immortal Lord Purple Cloud recognized him as an Immortal King and bowed, leaving the assembled cultivators in shock.

• Envoys from several immortal factions offered rewards and benefits to recruit the newly arrived ascenders.
• Several Profound Immortals probed Li Qingshan with their divine senses and spat blood after encountering his overwhelming presence.
• The Heavenly Immortals and Profound Immortals knelt beside the Ascension Pool when they realized Li Qingshan was no ordinary cultivator.
• Immortal Lord Purple Cloud arrived, recognized Li Qingshan as an Immortal King, and bowed to him.
• The assembled cultivators trembled when they heard Li Qingshan was an Immortal King.

Li Qingshan worried that Xuan Yuan Nihuang would learn about his relationship with Tantai Yue. Chu Yingluo summoned Tantai Yue to meet them, leaving Tantai Yue nervous as she faced Li Qingshan’s wife.

• Chu Yingluo gave Xuan Yuan Nihuang a Phoenix-Singing Immortal Hairpin, an Immortal King Artifact suited to her bloodline.
• Li Qingshan complained that Chu Yingluo had been more generous to Xuan Yuan Nihuang and Chang'an than she had been to him, and Little Tower mocked him.
• Li Qingshan hesitated over his relationship with Tantai Yue, but denied hiding anything when Xuan Yuan Nihuang asked.
• Chu Yingluo suggested inviting Tantai Yue to meet everyone, and Tantai Yue arrived at the bamboo house.
• Tantai Yue recognized Xuan Yuan Nihuang and grew nervous as she faced Li Qingshan’s wife.

At the celestial banquet, Li Qingshan’s companions reunited and Li Chang’an met his father’s fellow disciples. Xuan Yuan Nihuang told Li Qingshan that if he rebuilt the Heavenly Court, he should have other women and children to carry on his bloodline.

• Su Changge sought Chu Yingluo’s guidance and experienced sudden enlightenment from her pointers.
• Hua Wu and Hua Yu asked Tantai Yue and Xuan Yuan Nihuang about the Immortal Realm, and Xuan Yuan Nihuang welcomed them into her circle.
• Jiang Lingsu questioned Li Chang’an about being Li Qingshan’s son and teased him about being better behaved than his father, while Ye Wudao defended him.
• Li Qingshan thanked Xuan Yuan Nihuang for handling the matter with Tantai Yue during a private conversation at the banquet.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang told Li Qingshan that he would need other women and more children if he became Heavenly Emperor, since his future cultivation could make having offspring difficult.

Li Qingshan showed Li Chang'an and Xuan Yuan Nihuang several Half-Step Immortal Emperor Dao Fruits in the Chaos Tower. He offered Xuan Yuan Nihuang Venerable Zi Yang’s Purple Star Dao Fruit, and she accepted it after learning she could refine its Great Dao essence without following his path.

• Li Chang'an asked whether Li Qingshan had killed the owners of the Dao Fruits, and Li Qingshan explained that he had subdued some and collected others afterward.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang told Li Chang'an that Half-Step Immortal Emperor Dao Fruits were rare treasures that Immortal Kings would fight over.
• Li Qingshan presented Xuan Yuan Nihuang with Venerable Zi Yang’s purple-gold Dao Fruit, saying its imperial Dao suited her cultivation.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang asked whether refining the Dao Fruit would make her follow Venerable Zi Yang’s path, and Li Qingshan said she should refine its essence while walking her own.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang accepted the Violet Star Dao Fruit.

Li Qingshan used the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd to accelerate time and refine two half-step Immortal Emperor Dao fruits for Xuan Yuan Nihuang and Li Chang'an. After a thousand years of cultivation, both reached the peak ninth-level Immortal Lord realm, one step from becoming immortal kings.

• Little Tower complained about Li Qingshan's praise of his wife and son, then flew to guard the entrance.
• Li Qingshan activated the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd's Time Divine Light, making time flow ten thousand times faster inside the space.
• Li Qingshan slowly refined the two Dao fruits and fed their Great Dao essence to Xuan Yuan Nihuang and Li Chang'an.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang developed a Great Xia Fortune Divine Dynasty within her embryonic Dao fruit and advanced to the immortal lord realm.
• Li Chang'an fused his dragon and phoenix powers into a space-time domain and also advanced to the immortal lord realm.
• After the Dao fruits were fully refined, Xuan Yuan Nihuang and Li Chang'an both reached the peak ninth-level Immortal Lord realm.

Li Qingshan arrived at the Ancestral Dragon's Nest, where the Dragon Clan welcomed him with the highest honors before their ancestor summoned him for a private meeting. The five-clawed golden dragon recognized the signs of the Heavenly Emperor's choice in Li Qingshan, leaving Li Qingshan asking whether the elder had known the Heavenly Emperor.

• Li Qingshan and Little Tower reached the Ancestral Dragon's Nest, and the Ancestral Dragon Bell rang eighty-one times to welcome them.
• The Dragon Emperor personally greeted Li Qingshan, while Ao Kun, Ao Xuan, and Feng Wu reunited with him.
• The Dragon Emperor hosted Li Qingshan in the Ancestral Dragon Hall, where Little Tower guzzled the Dragon Clan's Ten Thousand Dragons Immortal Brew.
• The Dragon Emperor told Li Qingshan that the clan's ancestor wished to meet him alone and escorted him to the forbidden ground.
• The five-clawed golden dragon recognized the Ancient Chaos Talisman, chaos dao fruit, and Ancient Void Dragon origin aura in Li Qingshan, then said he had awaited the one chosen by the Heavenly Emperor.
• Li Qingshan asked the ancestor whether he had known the Heavenly Emperor.

Li Qingshan learned that the Phoenix Ancestor had seen the Heavenly Emperor’s gourd in the hands of the Demon Emperor, Yueye Yao, and prepared to seek it at the Myriad Demon Palace. Before he left, the Golden Dragon Ancestor and Phoenix Ancestor gave him ancestral dragon and phoenix essence blood to help him complete the final transformation of the Nine Transformations of the True Dragon.

• The Golden Dragon Ancestor recalled how the four primordial dragon brothers joined the Heavenly Emperor, and pledged that the Dragon Clan would follow Li Qingshan if he became qualified to rebuild the Heavenly Court.
• The Golden Dragon Ancestor warned Li Qingshan that the Immortal Emperors in the Chaos Sea might return within decades or centuries as the Immortal Realm’s barriers weakened.
• The Phoenix Ancestor identified a strange gourd in the possession of Yueye Yao as the likely treasure Li Qingshan sought, and warned that the Demon Emperor would be difficult to deal with.
• The Golden Dragon Ancestor gave Li Qingshan ancestral dragon essence blood, and the Phoenix Ancestor added ancestral phoenix essence blood to balance its power and aid his Ancestor Dragon Transformation.